イベントカテゴリー: Annual Seminar Series

18 January 2010

Political Change and National Identity in the UK and Japan

This first seminar in the 2010 series, ‘States in Change: National Identity in the UK and Japan’, explored the impact of political change or its prospect on society, its values and aspirations. The Democratic Party of Japan’s recent election victory has overturned over fifty years of nearly unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party. Does this major political upheaval represent a rejection of the past or does it point to a profound change in Japanese society and its expectations of government?

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20 May 2010

Class, Social Mobility and Social Divides in the UK and Japan

This fourth seminar in the 2010 series, ‘States in Change: National Identity in the UK and Japan’, explored the factors contributing to life chances in both countries. The speakers addressed the current debates on changing societies and social inequalities which, in the immediate aftermath of the UK General Election, resulted in a lively discussion of what policy makers can and should be doing to effect change.

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24 June 2010

Working Lives: Gender and Society in the UK and Japan

This fifth seminar in the 2010 series, ‘States in Change: National Identity in the UK and Japan’, explored working lives in both countries from the perspective of gender issues and social change. The culture of work in Japan provided a particular focus. Against the backdrop of the economic downturn, the seminar considered current trends with respect to demographic change and career prospects for women.

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22 September 2010

Immigrants, Minorities and the Multiculturalism Debate

This sixth seminar in the 2010 series, ‘States in Change: National Identity in the UK and Japan’, provided two very different perspectives on the subject of ‘Immigrants, Minorities and the Multiculturalism Debate’. Multicultural Britain has a long history of immigration and integration of foreign nationals into local communities while Japan’s traditionally homogeneous society, for historic and economic reasons, has followed another pattern.

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17 November 2010

Public Diplomacy and National Identity in the UK and Japan

The final seminar in the 2010 seminar series, ‘States in Change: National Identity in the UK and Japan’, explored the ways in which aspects of foreign cultures and national interests may be communicated and projected abroad. Concepts such as ‘soft power’ have contributed to changing definitions of public diplomacy, a term which was first used in US diplomatic circles in the 1960s.

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